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Originally Posted by mrmikel
PDFs can not be included within a epub file and work. Not on most readers anyway. You would have to have it as a separate file. You would have to be careful of your storage location, so your link to it from within the epub would work.
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Interestingly, my application with Apple went through yesterday, and so off I went to download their software and manuals. They also give out examples of a reflowable epub (to show the various things you can do with it) and a fixed-layout one. In the former, they actually state that you can embed PDFs right within your epub file, and give an example...
...but I gather that that's iBooks specific, and, as you stated, probably wouldn't work on other platforms?
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Most of us have pounded away for quite a while on epubs. Your approach is fine for a one off if you don't really care if it survives the endless and inevitable hardware changes at Apple and elsewhere.
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I really just don't know what I'm going to do in the long run -- not yet, anyway. For the time being, I'm just happy -- if not elated -- to get my ebook out as it is, even with all its "faults", and even just on iBooks and nowhere else. Once that's up, and then for the time being over and done with, I have another project I want to work on which will be much more "normal" -- no funny business involved in creating it, it should be really quite straightforward.
I was going to use
that project to try to get it out there beyond just iBooks, and learn whatever quirks and idiosyncrasies of Kindle, etc. -- and once I've got that under my belt, and a little more experience, then maybe I'll go back and try to come up with a "second edition" of my first book.
I have no idea how, or what I'll path I'll take -- maybe I'll find another font, which may not look as good as my current one, but at least it'll work cross-platform, or maybe I'll just do those "olde" page up simply as graphics. I just don't know -- yet -- but I'll figure something out eventually, and in the meantime I'm happy that my book at least works on iBooks, and if only on that platform, and even if only for some unspecified brief moment in time (until they change things over there and it doesn't work anymore), it was "out there" in the way that I'd always wanted it to be.
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As I understand it, everyone is showing their concern based on the very bitter fact that if you do things I we understand you to be doing, you will end up having to do it all over from scratch. Most of us when we are done with a book are good and done with it for quite a while and could recite the book almost from memory for reading it over and over and over again for errors, obliterating most of the enjoying of it reading it in the first place. If any reader of your book finds an error, it may take you an inordinate amount of time to fix it. That is the concern.
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Yeah, I appreciate that -- I appreciate the sentiment of "getting it right" and being done with it, and also appreciate all the help everyone has given me! Thanks to you, and to everyone else!
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Harry, a very meticulous fella, posts beautiful epubs on here. But even he is on 4th or 5th revisions of the same book.
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Um, who's Harry? And where could I find his books? I'd certainly be curious to take a look at some "beautiful" epubs.